field ambulance

British

noun

military a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital

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In World War I he rose to a sergeancy in a field ambulance unit in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Himself a writer, Son Masefield was a member of a field ambulance unit.

From Time Magazine Archive

A 200-man field ambulance unit and the 900-man crew of the destroyer Sioux are the only Canadians left there of some 33,100* who served during and after the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

We conveyed him as carefully as we could to the field ambulance.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

Outside Nooitgedacht I found four military doctors with a field ambulance.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.

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